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Keeping a weather eye on road conditionsDrive C2X has shown that advanced warning of poor road conditions could cut fatalities, as David Crawford explains. Connected vehicle (CV)-based warning technologies could mean 6% fewer deaths and 5% fewer injuries in road traffic accidents in Europe, according to the final results of the European Commission (EC) co-funded DRIVE C2X project. According to the European Centre for Information...

Internet-connected cars their functionality and safety challengesInternet-connected cars are poised to flood the market in the near future. Pete Goldin considers the functionality they offer, the technology they use and the challenge they represent in terms of driver safety. Many vehicles on the road today offer some sort of internet connectivity and experts agree that this capability will become a competitive differentiator in the automotive industry in...

Reducing congestion with Tomtom's historical traffic dataHistorical traffic data provided by TomTom is being used by the local government in Spain's Basque region to reduce road congestion at less cost. Old habits die hard. Photos from as far back as the 1930s show people counting cars by the roadside in order to provide congestion data to those running road networks. Today, such techniques are still used, albeit augmented by a range of automation...

Kapsch looks to the futureColin Sowman reports from a two-day meeting where industry leaders, academics and political advisers presented their thoughts on the future of mobility. Most governments do...

Air quality tops transportation agendasColin Sowman catches up on some of the latest research around outdoor
pollution and looks at options available to authorities in areas of poor air quality. Iair quality...